James Byrne
196 Kearney Road
Pomfret, Connecticut 06259
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	Objective
	Seeking a position as Netbackup and Storage consultant
	Work Experience
	Senior Netbackup Consultant
   7/2008 – Present,  Hyatt Leader Consulting Services, New York, New York
•	Contracted by Hyatt Leader Consulting Services to assist Time Life Inc. with
their netbackup environment.   Upgraded 5 master/media servers and 14 media
servers from version netbackup 5.1 to netbackup 6.5.  Simplified netbackup
policies – merged 131 policies down to 17.  Consolidated/ migrated 4 netbackup
master servers to 2 master servers on new hardware (SUN X4600s).  Installed and
configured SL8500 tape library.  Set up tape vaulting and offsite procedures for
Tampa facility.  Automated tape injects and ejects with ACSLS.  Implemented
backups over WAN.  Network analysis showed that sufficient bandwidth existed on
week nights and weekends to make this possible.  Backups are offsite immediately
without the need for tape vaulting.  Improved backup and restore SLAs.  Worked
with windows and unix admins to resolve netbackup client issues in a timely
manner.  This resulted in a 99% backup and restore success rate.  Implemented
Netbackup Operations Monitoring.  This report writer was used to obtain the
status of nightly backups and analyze the backup environment.  The reporter was
used to eliminate duplicate backups between data centers saving 10 terabytes of
tape per week.  The report writer was also used to provide reports for SOX
compliancy.  Performed backup audit of all servers.  Worked with Windows and Unix
Teams to be sure all clients are backed up.   Converted 70 unix and 15 windows
servers from Tivoli to Netbackup.  Worked with Tivoli customers to be sure backup
policies in netbackup met their current SLA with Tivoli. Implemented Netbackup
MS-SQL agent for MS-SQL servers.  Simplified backups by not having to dump to
disk and backup to tape.  Backups are done directly to tape thus saving disk
because disk based dump areas are no longer needed.
	Senior Netbackup Consultant
6/2008 – 7/2008  Collective Technologies, Austin, Texas
	Contracted by Symantec Corporation Consulting Services to assist the
New York Police Department with their Netbackup 6.5 implementation. Installed
netbackup 6.5 on windows 2003 master/media server.  Installed client on 70 SUSE
linux clients and 30 Windows 2003 clients.  Configured disk staging for archive
log backups to meet stringent database archiving SLAs.  Mentored NYPD staff on
how to setup, configure, and maintain a netbackup environment.  Emphasis was put
on simplicity of policy design to avoid creating an overly complex and convoluted
backup environment. Recommend backup strategies to insure the integrity of NYPD
data (weekly, month end, and yearend). Created vaulting procedures to facilitate
sending tapes offsite.  Created an onsite pool for immediate restores of any data
less than three weeks old.  Installed and configured Lotus notes agent and DB2
agents.  Both agents were configured for hot online backups.  Configured backup
and restore templates for DB2 backups.  Instructed client in the use of templates
simple database backups, restores, and point-in-time recovery.  Installed
Baremetal Recover for Windows 2003 and SUSE Linux clients.  Instructed Client in
the use of BMR and some mock DR recoveries.  Installed and configured VERITAS
Backup Reporter V6.2.  Created reports per NYPD specifications.  Configured SMTP
on VBR server to enable emailing of reports to various departments.
	Senior Netbackup Architect and Engineer
12/2007 - 5/2008  IRIS Software, Edison, NJ
	Contracted by Iris Software to assist Thomson Financial in tuning their
netbackup environment and resolving various backup issues.  The primary purpose
of my contract was to tune the Netbackup environment to improve backup throughput
and use less resources.  This goal was accomplished by following best practices
for Netbackup tuning and simplification of backup policies and procedures.  The
results of tuning and simplification are as follows:  1) Eliminated missed
backups in the Boston and NJ Datacenters.  There were over 600 missed backups
each day between the two datacenters.  2) Updated exclude lists on backup clients
saving 15Terabytes of tape/week.  3) Located 3000 scratch tapes off site and
called back for reuse.  4) Tuning  and load balancing eliminated the need for new
backup equipment.  5) Set up storage groups to allow backups to use any netbackup
media server.  This enabled all media servers to operate at full capacity which
resulted in all backups completing each night.   The use of storage groups also
enabled backups to continue in the event of a media server failure.6) Implemented
flashbackup for large media servers.  This enabled large windows bases file
servers with 10 Million+ files to backup each night.7) Implemented user initiated
backups for databases (oracle and sql server). The resolving of backup issues was
done on a client by client basis.  Most issues involved improper netbackup client
configuration, client network settings, out of date client software, and/or
improper switchport settings.
	Sr. Netbackup Consultant
10/2007 - 12/2007  Glasshouse, Boston, Mass
	Contracted by glasshouse to assist in backup outsourcing.  The scope of
the project was to initially transfer the process and procedures currently in use
 to Glasshouse.  The second phase of the project was to make recommendations to
improve the backup process, procedures, and reporting.
	Sr. Vertias Netbackup Engineer
7/2007 - 10/2007  CDI Corp, Jersey City, New Jersey
	Contracted to The Hartford to simplify and redesign their Netbackup
environment.  Reduced the number of general netbackup policies from 3302 to 2137.
 Made Recommendations to eliminate the use of problematic BCV oracle backups in
favor of RMAN and SSO. There were over +2500 BCV backups kicked off via autosys
that were becoming unmanageable.  The conversion to RMAN will reduce the number
of oracle backup polices down to under 500 policies and eliminate the need to use
Autosys. Headed up effort to reduce backup errors impacting service level
agreements.  Backup errors were tracked and eliminated through the use of problem
ticketing and escalation.  Backup errors were previously left to be corrected by
system administrators.  Shifting backup error resolution to the backup team
greatly improved the Backup Teams SLA metrics.
	Sr. Veritas Netbackup Engineer
4/2007 - 7/2007  The Computer Merchant, Norwell, Ma
	Installed and configured netbackup 5.1 on windows 2003 server.  Set up
polices and tape retentions according to specifications provided by the customer.
 Performed disaster recovery of Netbackup Master server and a few selected
clients.  Installed and configured 100+ netbackup clients running Linux, AIX, and
Windows.  Resolved all client backup issues.  Installed and configured Marimba
and SNMP traps on all windows servers. Resolved all issues with data collection.
	Infrastructure Computing Consultant
3/2006 - 3/2007  Strategic Technologies, Glasonbury, CT
	Installed Netbackup/Netapp solutions for clients to offer superior data
protection and disaster recovery.  Typical solutions include the installation of
netapp clusters or standalone filers.  The netapp filers snapshot capability is
leveraged to provide onsite backups.  The integration of netbackup with the filer
provides for making offsite tapes, vaulting, and scheduling of backups. 
Installed netbackup on client software on Linux (Redhat/Suse), Solaris
(7,8,9,10), Windows (2000,2003), and Netware (5.x).    Installed netbackup addons
for backing up MS Exchange, MS SQL, and Oracle are used to provide simple and
reliable backups for these products.  Configured Bash scripts  on linux and
solaris clients to shutdown, and restart databases before and after a backup. 
Configured RMAN scripts to perform multistream backups for large oracle databases
(> 1Terabyte).Provided unix/linux system administration as required for the
following: patch management (using rpm, apt-get, or yum), setting up cron scripts
to perform various system tasks, setting up webmin to allow customers to easily
configure various system services (sendmail, nfs, samba, dns).  Assisted
customers in database and web migrations from solaris to linux. Mentored clients
in the use of their netapp filer so they can perform snapshots, snapvault, snap
restores, mirror volumes via snapmirror, share out luns via fibre and/or Iscsi.  
Instructed clients on how to set up their filer for optimum performance, future
expansion, and modification.
	Netbackup Consultant
3/2005 - 5/2006  Tek Systems, Jersey City, NJ
	Conducted backup audits for various business units at J.P. Morgan
Chase.  The audit consisted of reviewing business backup requirements and
verifying these requirements against the policies in netbackup. Used Bocada
(backup reporting tool) to verify the backups configured in netbackup were
running properly.  Any backups not running as designed or having errors were
reported and corrected.  Used Athena (J.P. Morgan's inventory system) to map all
servers to backup policies and confirm they were being backed up.  Any servers
not being backed up were reported to the business owner.  Educated business
owners on the backup methodology for J.P. Morgan Chase.  Instructed users on how
to use the Backup Reporting Web System (BReWS), Backup job reporting system
(Bocada), and how to lookup their servers in the inventory system (Athena).
	Sr. Veritas Netbackup Engineer
3/2004 - 6/2005  Sapphire Technologies, Boston, MA
	Assigned to Verispan in Waltham, MA. Designed, configured, and
installed a netbackup environment consisting of 20 SAN media servers running as
LPARs on IBM P690s, a SUN L700 Tape Library, and brocade switches.  Used Oracle's
RMAN utility with netbackup to backup a data warehouse environment (100
Terabytes/Week).  Wrote custom backup scripts to shutdown databases, run a Cold
Database Backup, and bring the Database back on-line.
	Sr. Veritas Netbackup Engineer
10/2004 - 3/2005  The Computer Merchant, Norwell, Ma
	Netbackup contractor assigned to Pratt & Whitney. Redesigned Netbackup
environment to improve backup reliability, performance, and maintainability.
Re-engineered backup environment to reduce the number of backup policies from 481
policies down to 51 policies. Improved backup throughput from 400 Terabytes per
month to 600 terabytes per month using existing equipment. Simplified the backup
environment to make a backup audit possible. All servers and relevant data are
now backed up.  Installed and configured a new backup infrastructure consisting
of 4 netbackup servers (Sun V440) and an IBM3584 Tape Silo. Designed a backup
solution to perform backups for large servers (+400Gigs) using Netbackup SAN
Media severs with Shared Storage option and Brocade switches.  Installed and
configured multiple servers to use netbackup agents for Oracle, Lotus Notes,
Exchange, and MS-SQL server. Worked with the business owners and Help desk to
design policies and procedures to use these agents for backup and restore.
	Sr. Veritas Netbackup Engineer
10/2000 - 3/2004  Putnam Investments, Franklin Ma, 
	Netbackup Enterprise Administrator: Design and Implement backup
architecture for all open systems (Windows NT, Solaris sparc/x86, Linux, BSD,
HP-UX,AIX).  Install, upgrade, and patch netbackup servers on SUN Servers (E420,
E4500, V880, etc.) running solaris8 and IBM Servers (P690,P670) running AIX 5.2.
Configure all policies, schedules, and tape retentions.  Recommend solutions to
improve backup performance, reliability, and tape utilization.  Tune all
netbackup servers based upon server memory, CPU, and tape drive technology (DLT,
LTO1, LTO2).  Create/Maintain a set of shell scripts to report client backup
status and health of Netbackup server.  Install, configure, and maintain various
netbackup addons for hot and cold database for Oracle, Informix, and Lotus Notes.
 Create client based scripts to utilize various file system snap technologies
like  EMC snapview or Veritas vxfs snapshot. Create, configure, and maintain
various database backup scripts using RMAN for hot and cold database backups.
Create and Maintain Disaster recovery policies and procedures used for semiannual
disaster recover tests.  Egenera Bladeframe:  Install, configure, and maintain
Linux servers running on Egenera bladeframe.  Create solutions for hardware
and/or application failover using Egenera's builtin functionality.  Create and
Maintain scripts run on  Egenera controlblades for new server creation. New
server scripts install Redhat Advanced Server, patch the OS up to the recommended
patch levels, map SAN storage to linux volumes, and configure a network
connection to Egenera's virtual switch network.SAN Installation/Config: 
Configure fibre to SCSI converters for backup.  Current equipment includes IBM
SAN Data Gateways and  Crossroads Bridges.  Configure Zones on Brocade swithes
for use with Open System Disk and LTO2 Fibre Tape Drives.   Configure IBM shark
storage arrays by formatting disk groups (RAID5,RAID1+0) and assigning luns to
various open system servers (NT, Linux, Solaris).  Configure Netbackup SAN Media
servers for SAN based backups.
	Unix Sys Admin
10/1999 - 10/2000  The Allied Group, Glastonbury, CT
	Unix Admin/Mentoring:  Perform duties necessary to implement design
decisions, fix system related problems, and instruct one or more customer
employees on how to use and maintain their new system. Typical mentoring tasks
include upgrading software via pkgadd, creating user accounts, configuring
various daemons such as Sendmail, monitoring diskspace and system performance,
and installing new hardware  New Hardware installations:  Install Sun hardware
and relevant software. Typical duties include installing solaris OS, partitioning
hard drives, Installing Veritas Volume Manager and/or Solaris DiskSuite, creating
volumes (RAID 0, RAID 1+0, RAID 0+1, or RAID-5), creating file systems (ufs or
vxfs), installing GNU Software (download software, compile, install, and
configure), Server Lockdowns, DNS, Sendmail, NIS, Netbackup installation and
configuration, etc. To assist the customer with any UNIX related tasks. 
Certified Instructor for SA-389 Instructor for SA-389, Solaris TCP/IP Network
Administration - topics include RPC, DHCP, TCP/IP, Netmasks, DNS, Sendmail,
ISO/OSI Layers
	Education
	9/1990 - 5/1993  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Hartford, CT
	Master's Degree
	Computer Science
	5/1981 - 9/1987  Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
	Bachelor's Degree
	Computer Science/Biology, Dual Major Chemistry, Minor
	Skills
	Skill Name                                        	Skill Level	Last
Used/Experience
		AIX, Solaris, SCO, IRIX, BSD,  	Expert          	Currently used/7
		Netbackup                                           	Expert         
	Currently used/6
	Languages
		English (Fluent - Wide Knowledge)